North Adams Beef & Produce Co. v. Cantor

On May 8, 1930, the defendant tendered to the plaintiffs a check signed by him, drawn upon the First National Bank of Bennington, dated May 10, 1930, in payment for certain merchandise. The plaintiffs refused to accept it because it was postdated. Whereupon the defendant changed the date to May 8, and informed the plaintiffs that he had no funds in the bank to meet the check. The plaintiffs then accepted it. The check went to protest on May 10, and the plaintiffs have brought this action under G. L. 6888, as amended by No. 130, Acts of 1925, providing in part that, “Any person who makes,…